Tree of the Year

Taiwania cryptomerioides, Tree of the Year 2010

JOHN GRIMSHAW writes about Taiwania cryptomerioides Hayata, a very large coniferous tree in the family Cupressaceae, native to Taiwan, Myanmar, western China and Vietnam. It has distinct juvenile and mature growth...

Trochodendron aralioides, Tree of the Year 2009, Susyn Andrews, with contributions from John Anderson, Koen Camelbeke, Mary Forrest, Martin Gardner, Sabina Knees, Roy Lancaster, Seamus O’Brien, John Phillips and Anne Rieber

The generic name Trochodendron, derived from the Greek trochus, a wheel and dendron, a tree, literally means wheel-tree from the manner in which the stamens radiate like the spokes of a wheel, as well as the spreading leaves on the...

Eucommia ulmoides, Tree of the Year 2008, Susyn Andrews, with contributions from John Anderson, Koen Camelbecke, Brigitte de la Rochefoucauld, John Hillier, Anne Rieber and Mark Smith

Dr Augustine Henry (1857-1930) was stationed in China as a medical officer from 1881 to 1900 apart from a few short periods on home leave. He began collecting plants in earnest c. 1884 and sometime between 1887 and 1890 sent back to Kew for...

Parrotia, Tree of the Year 2007, Susyn Andrews, with contributions from Colin Crosbie, Peter Del Tredici, Michael Dosmann, Gert Fortgens, Roy Lancaster and especially Mikinori Ogisu

Carya ovata, Tree of the Year 2006, part I, Susyn Andrews, Mark Flanagan

Carya Nutt. is one of nine genera that comprise the Juglandaceae (Stone 1997). This small family of deciduous trees includes such well-known members as Juglans or walnuts, Carya the hickories and Pterocarya the wing-nuts. They occur in...

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